I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice. Deng Xiaoping More Quotes by Deng Xiaoping More Quotes From Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated. Deng Xiaoping years ideas thinking Any capitalism is superior to feudalism. Deng Xiaoping feudalism capitalism superiors The minority yields to the majority! Deng Xiaoping yield majority minorities Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat Deng Xiaoping black cat white It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted. Deng Xiaoping self mistake long In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions. Deng Xiaoping institutions problem way We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the Party and the state from crisis. Without him the Chinese people would, at the very least, have spent much more time groping in the dark. Deng Xiaoping party dark mistake Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and mistakes, we hold that his mistakes were only secondary. What he did for the Chinese people can never be erased. In our hearts we Chinese will always cherish him as a founder of our Party and our state. Deng Xiaoping party mistake heart So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi. Deng Xiaoping assessment party blow In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao. Deng Xiaoping mao portraits past Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice? Deng Xiaoping cat white long Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people. Deng Xiaoping gang four people The experiences I had with( Communist Party leader Mao Zedong) were the great famine and the The Cultural Revolution, and none of my family's life had improved. Deng Xiaoping in 1978 released the potential of individuals. Deng Xiaoping world